Journey through time and explore the most catastrophic decisions that shaped history around 1000 years ago. From epic military blunders to civilization-ending mistakes, we'll dive into the moments ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...

Originally, it was all about control of the holy city of Jerusalem, which had been held by Muslims since they conquered it from the Orthodox Christian Eastern Roman (or “Byzantine”) empire in the ...

He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based on the latest research in all major European languages. I also wanted to highlight and explain ...